Jonny Sweet

When comedians swap the stage for telly

Two new TV series - Together and The Almost Impossible Gameshow - demonstrate how live acts as unique as Jonny Sweet and the Rubberbandits can find the funny to suit different formats.

Rarely Asked Questions - Jonny Sweet

Jonny Sweet's new romantic comedy series Together continues on BBC Three. Please watch it, it is brilliant, Sweet is brilliant and it also features a lot of other brilliant comedy faces.

Together review: charming comedy in BBC3's last days

Huw Fullerton enjoys Jonny Sweet's new sitcom, which follows the fortunes of two young people living in London struggling to find their place in the world - and realising they're better together...

This new comedy drama from Jonny Sweet follows listless singleton Ellen and bumbling berk Tom, participants in a brief encounter who, despite sharing an undeniable attraction, seem destined to flitter around each other like drunk moths. In this opening episode, a smitten Tom joins Ellen's painting class, despite his previous artistic endeavours mainly being in the medium of Crayola. Despite neither lead character proving particularly sympathetic, this slow burner offers enough warmth to warrant a return visit.

Together preview

I've always rated Jonny Sweet, only ever really knowing him from small parts, however I'm sure that after Together airs a lot more people will know who he is and the roles he gets offered will only get bigger.

Jonny Sweet: 'My parents will be humiliated'

Jonny Sweet on his new BBC Three series Together.

Jonny Sweet: My nickname was Gimpy at school

"I must say, I'm fed up of playing these slightly wet poshos," laughs Jonny Sweet, whose career to date has seen him frequently assume the persona of wet posho. "I think it's about time I was given a gun for something or an action film. I always thought I was going to be plucked from university into the secret service anyway - I'm still waiting for the call."

Who makes you laugh? You may find yourself asking that more than once tonight as the annual Comedy Awards are dished out. Humour is a subjective business and what makes one person chortle can leave another totally nonplussed. Jonathan Ross will be trying to keep best order for tonight's gag fest and it's good to see fresh-ish names such as Steve Delaney, Jonny Sweet and Tom Basden cropping up among a clutch of usual suspects. The night climaxes with the crowning of the King or Queen of Comedy - can Jack Whitehall hang on to his title? Given he's up against exactly the same opposition as last year - a bit unimaginative, that - then why not?

Winner of the 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award for best newcomer, Jonny Sweet is a young talent to look out for. He might be familiar from Sky1's comedy series Chickens, penned by Sweet with his co-stars Joe Thomas and Simon Bird, (the stars of The Inbetweeners, Fresh Meat and Friday Night Dinner).

There is an essence of all of these comedies about Hard to Tell, with the emphasis on the younger characters' trials and tribulations, but I think it's a grower. This episode involves Valentine's Day plans that one knows are doomed as soon as we learn that they involve borrowing the prized touring van of a girlfriend's father...